Tag: workshops

A well-designed figure can have a huge impact on the communication of research results. This workshop will introduce key principles and resources for visualizing data:

• Choosing when to use a visualization
• Selecting the best visualization type for your data
• Choosing design elements that increase clarity and impact
• Avoiding visualization issues that obscure or distort data
• Finding tools for generating visualizations

Date: Thursday, July 7

Time: 12 – 1 pm

Location: Bioscience Library Training Room, 2189 VLSB (inside the library). Please, no food or drink in the Training Room.

Open to all interested students and researchers; no registration is required.

Questions? Contact esmith@library.berkeley.edu

This workshop will introduce you to the rich ecosystem of genomic data repositories and analysis tools available for discovery and utilization of open genomic data. We will focus on a handful of bioinformatics tools that are accessible to researchers without programming expertise. We will also review current publisher and funder data sharing policies to understand “open data” as it relates to genomic research.

We will spend the last 45 minutes of the workshop on a hands-on gene expression reanalysis use case that shows you how to:

• Search the Gene Expression Omnibus for datasets of interest
• Use GEO2R to analyze gene expression data and generate a list of differentially expressed genes
• Use pathway and network tools to interpret that gene list in a biological context

Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Time: 12 – 1:30 pm; this is a hands-on workshop, so please bring your own laptop

Location: D-Lab Conference Room, 371 Barrows Hall

Please register: http://dlab.berkeley.edu/register?field_training_uid=25457

(Space is limited, and registered and waitlisted attendees will have priority.)

Presenter: Dr. Megan Laurance is the Research Informationist at the UCSF Library where she uses her expertise in genomic data analysis and knowledge management to help researchers get up to speed on various bioinformatics methods, databases and software, and integrate those tools into their own data analysis and interpretation workflows. Prior to becoming the Research Informationist at UCSF in 2013, Dr. Laurance spent 12 years at a genomic software and database company, and spent 10 years at the bench as a researcher studying various topics including transplantation biology, transcription, and cancer.

Questions? Please contact bios@library.berkeley.edu

On Wednesday, March 23 from 9 – 11 am PDT, NCBI staff will present a workshop for advanced users of SRA and dbGaP who are interested in using public datasets, and:

• Use and move large genomic datasets,
• Use cloud computing for analyzing genomic datasets,
• Express an interest in doing parallel work on genomic datasets,
• Or are well-versed in RNA-Seq, variant calling, or metagenomics.

The registration link lists the specific topics the workshop will cover. For a more general explanation of NCBI’s genomic resources, please visit NCBI Learn for webinars and factsheets pertaining to dbGaP, SRA, and more.

Reposted from NCBI News.